Frances D. Cook

Ms. Frances D. Cook "graduated from the College in 1967. Having been one of our very first graduates to pass successfully the very difficult State Department Foreign Service examination, Ambassador Cook began her foreign service career in Paris where she was a special assistant to Sargent Shriver, then U.S. ambassador to France. In 1970, she became a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam. It was during this period in her life that she became acquainted with some of the legendary American diplomats of the 20th century such as Ambassadors Philip Habib and David K. Bruce of Virginia."